Regime cuts off internet throughout Cuba after massive protests in Guantánamo

The Cuban regime cut off the internet connection throughout the national territory after the massive demonstration occurred on Saturday night in the Guantanamo municipality of Caimanera, in which hundreds of neighbors peacefully took to the streets to protest the inefficient management of the crisis by the government and demanding "Freedom."

Traffic measurement tools CyberCuba reflected a sharp drop in the same throughout the country, which occurred after the appearance on social networks of images and publications reporting the events that occurred in a town that in 2004 had a registered population of 10,562 inhabitants.

“Confirmed: Network data shows collapse of internet traffic in Cuba amid protests for freedom and human rights around Caimanera, Guantánamo. Connectivity remains intermittent at present with partial restoration noted,” the NetBlocks Internet Observatory indicated via Twitter.

In the midst of the critical fuel situation in the country, with the electrical energy system on the verge of collapse, suffering constant and prolonged blackouts, in addition to widespread shortages, the Cuban population is once again showing signs of being fed up with the accumulation of problems and the increasingly more obvious inability of the government to offer solutions.

The total internet blackout, verified between 9:40 and 10:40 at night, repeats the usual repressive pattern of the Cuban regime, which cuts off internet access throughout the country for fear that the demonstrations will spread to other locations.

“The Internet traffic monitoring service Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) shows a sharp drop in Google searches carried out from Cuba, while on social networks users report internet outages on the Island,” reported in its social networks the Inventory Project.

According to this platform, which uses “journalistic tools and civic technology to tell about Cuba,” the digital blackout “happens after a popular protest occurred in the municipality of Caimanera, which borders the US naval base located in Guantanamo Bay. ”.

“Despite the interruptions in the internet service, images and testimonies about state repression to dismantle the protest have already begun to emerge,” the platform said, based on videos and images spread on social networks.

For its part, the platform 'Cuba says NO to the dictatorship' spread images of the repression unleashed by the regime's special forces, in which uniformed men - known as 'black berets' - can be seen charging violently against a defenseless and peaceful population. , concentrated in front of the government headquarters in the town.

“Thus, the military of the Castro dictatorship beat the women and men who were peacefully protesting in Caimaneras, Guantánamo, while they cut off the internet,” said the civic platform while urging international media to reflect what was happening in Cuba.

After the internet shutdown and the subsequent repression unleashed on the protesters, profiles of social networks supporters of the Cuban regime began to spread images of apparent "tranquility" in the streets of Caimanera and all of Cuba, with the aim of minimizing what happened and demonstrating that they have the situation under control.

In the Camagüey city of Nuevitas, focus of intense protests in August 2022, in which the people mostly took to the streets to demand "Change" and "Freedom" in Cuba, even forming barricades and confronting the police, the local radio station shared in its social networks a message of tranquility.

"Nuevitas, a town that sleeps next to the steep hills and serene sea," indicated the official radio station. Radio Nuevitas in a publication in which he showed images of the deserted and illuminated streets of a port city that marked a milestone in the history of anti-government protests in Cuba dominated for more than half a century by a totalitarian regime.

After the return to relative normality of the service internet in Cuba, publications of this manipulative and propagandist nature have appeared on social media profiles of the official press and supporters of the regime.